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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10
Westward Hot
have fashioned u boat Of my heart-my
hAort

have fashioned u boat Of my heart-my
heart,
Beware, i0r a Graf, 80 frail!
Ba. I've laden her held with truths Of gold,
And Hope Is the cleaning sail
| have launched my boat on tie iIAe-the
tide,
Hurrah for Z craft 50 gay!
But the winds will rise, and the stormy
skies
VIII darken her onward way.
IT'S love stands bright at the he!m-the
helm,
And Faith is the anchor strong,
And fast aud far Wa follow our star,
Though the nights wax cold and long.
God pity craft so fraii--so frail,
And grant her the waves TO breast;
That at last, at last, the wide sea passed,
She may enter the port OF rest
BY katherine Lee BITES in Independent,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10

the head Of the family expostulatcd with
him for thus trusting so much to Yankee
soldiers.
One day in August an order came
for the battalion to report at New Orleans,
to be mustered out. boat was taken at
Mobile one afternoon and the trip made by
way of Mississippi sound, Grants Pass and
Lake Ponchartrain.
Lake Port near New Orleans was reached
the middle Of the forenoon next day. At
the landing a one-legged soldier from Lees
army hobbIed off the boat with cruteh and
cane. He had given four years Of service
for what And now crippled, pennitess
and perhaps homeless, he returned to his
native city 10 drag cut the remnant Of a
life worse than ruined BY war sS5gInaliy
brV9nht q by few in his ha6vT SSuthA
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10

win whom he had neither interest nor
sympathy.
Some days were spent a. New Orleans
making out the muster rolls, turning over
Government property, etc,
BY and by, all being in readiness, passage
up the river was secured on u most excel
lent river boat, and upon this the battalion
embarked.
The trip was delightful, and many places
passed with which the command had every
reason 10 be familiar. Among these were
Baton Rouge, Morganza Bend, Grand Gulf,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10
General Western Passenger Agent

Nearly two million more tens of coal
have been sold thus far this year than at
the same time year ago. The price is al.
so 81 Ton higher The miners do not get
any better wages than last year, This
means So O00, 900 extra among the coal bar,
ons, levied finally upon the labor of the
country. Even when capitalists pay the
increased coel bill in the first place, they
lighteuel their purses and have 50 much
less to pay wCrkingmen. Much of the coal
FAX is paid directly by the poor but when
it stops the wheels of industry the indirect
tax is eyed more oppressive than that paid
directly
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10

Sporting goods man-Ies, | have the
latest Improved rifles of dozen different
makes of tor the mountains?
Omaha inan--No, I'm going TO Boom
City, Kansas.
"Where's that?"
81 don't know 'Xactly yet, but it's great
place, just started, lots selling like wildiire ;
sa ~ whole page about it in a Kansas
paper myself. What ought | TO take
along?"
"a small tent, barrel Of crackers and a
pistol to fight of grasshoppers."-EE.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10

There Is no denying the fact that Or. Jones
Red Clover Tonic is the most successful blood
purifier ever put on the market. lis won
derful cures in all stomach, kidney and liver
troubles has brought out many limitations. 1t
restores debilitated nerve tissues, restoring
the force lost by sickness, mental work or
excessive use of liquor, opium and tobacco.
E. Y. Griggs will supply the genuine at so
cents n bottle
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10
Western and Northwestern Land ESeur'
slams.

The Illinois Central Railroad will run
three Land Excursions 10 points in the West
and Northwest, including LeMars, Iowa.
Dates are August 80 September 90 and DC
toher II. Rates, one fare for the round trip,
tickets limited to thirty days, end good for
stop.oyer privileges west of and including
Iowa Falls. Tickets for above excursions
will he on sale at all Illinois Contra! points
in Illinois. and between Dubuque and Cedar
Falls inclusive in Iowa. Remember, Iowa is
the garden spot of the world, and these eS-
cursions furnish excellent opportunities for
visiting it. For excursion bills, rates Of fare,
ETC., apply to |. c. agents or TO the under.
signed at Manchester, Iowa.
J. T. Merry,
IL
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10
Beautiful woman, IRON whence came thy

DeNWrITUI WUHaIsi rIVIII "HctNV o''F'4o VI
bloom,
Thy besming eye, thy features fairg
What kindly hand on thee was laid
Endowing thee with beauty rare?
"'Twas NOT ever thus" the dame replied,
"Once pale this face, these features bold,
The 'Tavorite Prescription Of DR.. Pierce
Wrought the wonderous change which
you behold
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10

SECTION MISUNDERSTANDING THE AR
MIEs-TBE SOLDIER ONCE MORE A
PRIVATE CITIZEN.
EnlisSng, equiPping, drilling and disciPlin.
ing IN army is a long, tedious process, as my
sas saa readily see. Disbsadlng an army,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10

Coon manners and good morals are
syeYn friends and Arm atIies -Bsrtsi.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10
In CAMP AND Field.
A. Medical Mans Memory Of
Wartime.
BY G. B. JOHNSON.

CopptgAted, 1887, By The 4. n. KellOgg
Newspaper C0mpany.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-09-10
WHEN YOU TRAVEL

Line selected BY the United States Government to carry
tho East MaI.-the
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05
AT THE HOLD PLACE !"
URBANS RESTAURANT,
York Road, near Car Station, Towsontown.

Having disposed of the Smed- IA
ley House my friends will now
find me at my OLD PLACE, as IN s 5aISIsk
above. AS heretofore, 1 will al -
ways keep on hand the finest brands of LIQUORS,
BRANDIES, &C.; also Brown Stout, BASIS Ale,
Porter, and the choice brands of CHAMPAGNE,
CLARET, &c. The BEST BEER on draught and
in bottles, for family use A large stock of Cigars
of best brands always on hand.
@g>Summer residents can always be supplied
Mt city prices.
ND-Ample stabling and shedding and polite
hostler always in attendance.
LEWIS II. URBAN, Proprietor.
Jan.17'S7y.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05

This is to certify that after losing six fine shoats
with hog cholera, Mr.. E. Ii. Roberts was called in
to attend the balance, some of which were very
sick, but after administering his medicine, all got
we'll. THOMAS G. BosLEY.
This medicine has also been used with unfail-
ing success by Ed. C. Ensor, 7. G.. Pearce, Chas.
Hines, Messrs. Cowley, Dawson, Shipley, Jackson
and others. 1t never fails to cure. Sent by mail
for 80 cts. per package, at Factory at rs cents.
For sale by LEE & SON, Towsontown, and other
country merchants. [Sept. sissy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05
WORKING GLASSES ATTENTION.

prepared to furnish all classes with employment
at home, the whole of the time, or for their spare
Persons of either sex easily earn from so cents to
$500 per evening, and a proportional sum by de-
voting all their time to the business. Boys and
girls earn nearly as much as men. That all who
see this may send their address, and test the bus
mess, we make this offer. To such as are not
well satisfied we will send one dollar to pay for
the trouble of writing. Full particulars and out
fit free. Address GEORGE STINsoN s. Co.. Port
land, Maine. Feb.5y.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05
The Farmers and the Fairs.
Baltimore Herald.

The farmers of Maryland have struggled under
SO many disadvantages during the past twenty five
years that it is alike remarkable and satisfactory
to note the way in which they come to the front
year after year when the county fair gives them
an opportunity of meeting socially and displaying
the fruits of their patient Industry in manly com
petition. The farmer tolls unremittingly and, as
he is too apt to think, without praise or reward.
For months past he and his hands have been work
ing under broiling sun, or in the rain, day in
and day out; debarred by sheer fatigue at the
close of each day from participation in. home. or
social joys, and snatching only just enough sleep
to save them from breaking down altogether. To
such men and their hard-worked wives and daugh-
ters the county fair means most delightful break
in the monotony of drudgery; the sight of friends
and neighbors; encouragement in competitin
new ideas, and perhaps new openings for trade.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05
The Town of Baltimore in Ireland.

Foreign Letter IN Baltimore Sun.
This struggling little fishing village, for it is no
more, has history full of romance and interest,
and around it clusters as much of legend and ira
dition perhaps attaches to almost any other spot
in Ireland. Its harbor, almost lake-like in its
proportions, has borne upon its bosom antagonis-
tic squadrons, and its rocky cliffs have looked
down upon many deeds of heroism and daring.
The great city on the Chesapeake, to which it has
given its name, will naturally take interest in
learning something of the record of this Baltimore
which was old before it was born. Baltimore is
from the words Baile-an- I'll Nor, which in the
Irish language signify "The Town Of the Great
House." 1t was in remote ages a sanctuary of
the Druids.
/ was shown near the village the ruins of a
Druidical altar, upon which the Druids celebrated
their rites and inundated their victims. It re-
qures considerable stretch of the imagination to
convert these ruins into an altar, but made a
strong effort, and succeeded. But no matter as to
the altar. Authenticated records show that more
than four hundred years ago Baltimore was a to wn
Of note, that its great honest industry was even
then fishing, and it was much resorted to by fish
ermen from the coasts of Spain, France and other
countries. I say honest" industry because the
kings of Baltimore, like the other Irish kings of
the day, practiced only the industry of raiding
and pirating on each other.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05
Ministers and Tobacco.
Mefbodiaf profesf0nf-

Methodist Protestant.
We confess it is too big job to handle the
Whiskey and tobacco prohibition together, but as
certain as the one is come the other is coming and
We shall have clean ministry from both.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05
The City Controls the State by Fraud.

7
Mr.. Alexander Armstrong, one of the most
prominent Democrats of Washington county, in a
recent letter to the voters of his party in that
ty, says:
"Fellow-citizens, what value do your ballots
have if they to be neutralzed and -slaugh-
ed by fraudulent vote in Baltimore city? Sup
pose defeat the call for constitutional conven-
ton in this county by an overwhelming majority
-as would seem to be indicated by present public
sentiment-and our legitimate majority is over
reached in Baltimore by vote in favor of con-
vention-wholly fictitious and simply the registry
of fraud. Let me say to you, that euery illegal
ballot cast an the city Of Baltimore nert November
soiU be cast for constitutional convention and
that convention may thus be assembled at the will
of minority of the citizens of Maryland-aye,
more and worse than that-if they can sustain the
call for a convention by fraud, they can sustain
any constitution that may be promulgated by that
convention by the same means"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05
In the Wrong Graft.

American Citizen. "I heard there was vacancy
in your department and came to present candi
date for the position"
American Official. "Have yez letter from Mr..
Mulhooly, sorw
A. G. III have not the honor of that gentleman's
acquaintance"
A. o. "Well yez have no business meddIin' wild
polytics if yez don't know Mulhooly. Win did
y,ryoung man come overH
A. G. "He came over in the Mayfower, SIR
A. 0. otis a pity, sor, he didn't come over in
the Sunfower, for thin he'd a met Mr.. Mulhooly
himself; but Oil spake to him for yez."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-05

MONEV to be made. Cut this out and
mO1NL i return to us, and we will send
lance you, that will start you in business which
will bring you in more money right away than
anything else in this world. Any one can do the
Something new, that just coins money for all
workers. We will start you; capital not needed.
This is one of the genuine, important chances OF
lifetime. Those who are ambitious and enter
prising will not delay. Grand outfit free. Ad-
dress TRUE & Co., Augusta, Maine. Feb.5y.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24
NATIONAL LEGISLATION.
Provisions OF Some OF the Important
Laws Enacted by the Last
Congress.
Alien Land Owners Fisheries Retaliation
The Anti-Polygamy Bill,
Etc, Etc.
ALIEN LANDOWNERS.

The Act Forbidding Their Ownership of
Real Estate i'm the Territories.
The following is the full text Of the act
to restrict the ownership of real estate in
the Territories to American citizens:
Section /. That il shall be unlawful for
any person or persons not citizens OF the
United States, or who have not lawfully
declared their intention to become such
citizens, or for any corporation not created
by or under the laws of the United States,
or of some State or Territory of the United
STATES, 10 nerearter acquire, noid, or own
real estate so hereafter acquired, or any in
terest therein, in any of the Territories of
the United States or in the District of CO.
lumbia, except such as may be acquired
by inheritance or in good faith in the ordi-
nary course of justice in the collection of
debts heretofore created; provided, that the
prohibition of this section shall not apply
to cases in which the right TO hold or dis
pose of lands in the United States is Sc
cured by existing treaties to the citizens or
subjects of foreign countries, which rights,
so far as they may exist by force of any
such treaty, shall continue to exist so long
as such treaties are in force and no longer,
Sec. 2. That no corporation or associa-
ton, more than 20 per cent of the stock of
which is or may be owned by any person
or persons, corporation or corporations,
association or associations, not citizens of
the United States. shall hereafter acquire
or hold or own any real estate hereafter
acquired in any of the Territories of the
United States or of the District of Colum-
bia.
Sec. 3. That no corporation, other than
those organized for the construction or
operation of railways, canals, or turnpikes
shall acquire, hold, or own more than
5000 acres of land in any of the Territories
of the United States, and no railroad,
canal, or turnpike corporation shall here
after acquire, hold, or own lands in any
Territory other than as may be necessary for
the proper operation of its railroad, canal,
or turnpike, except such lands as may have
been granted to it by act of Congress; but
the prohibition of this section shall not
affect the title TO any lands now lawfully
held by any such corporation.
Sec. A.. That all property acquired, held,
or owned in violation of the provisions of
this act shall be forfeited to the United
States, and it shall be the duty of the At
torney General to enforce every such for
feiture by bill in equity or other proper
process. And in any suit or proceeding
that may be commenced to enforce the
provisions of this act, it shall be the duty
of the court to determine the very right of
the matter, without regard to matters of
form, joinder of parties, multifariousness,
or other matters not affecting the substan-
tial rights either of the United States or Of
the parties concerned in any such proceed
ing arising Out vf siI0 uIuttoI5 IN tIiI5 ucJ
mentioned
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24

company refusing to do that. then the At
torney General is to enter proceedings
10 have the title reconveyed TO the
United States. Then, as TO this excess
land, where il is found after such adj
justment that the homesteader or pre-
emptor mad title when the title of the
company attached, the bill secures him
priority of right in perfecting that title. As
to another class OF lands-lands which the
company has sold--the third section gives
to the purchaser of that land his title.
The bill is not q forfeiture measure, but
deals only with excess lands, and the sec
tions that follow protect the rights of the
Government and the rights of the settlers
and purchasers as to these excess lands
an act forfeiting lands granted to the New
Orleans, Baton Rouge AMI Vicksburg Rail-
road Company, known as the Backbone"
land forfeiture. The bill confirms tho title
of the New Orleans Pacific Railroad to
most of Il 6 land, and opens small amount
TO settlement.
Among the acts authorizing corporations
to bridge navigable waters were the follow
ing To the st. Louis Merchants Bridge
Company, over the Mississippi River near
ROAD Company, over the st. Louis ftiver
between Minnesota and Wisconsin, to the
Ohio Valley Railroad Company, over the
Tradewater River; to the East Dubuque
Bridge Company, over the Mississippi
River; to the State of Mississippi, over
Bayou Bernard; across the Potomac River
at Washington, ID. c.; across the Missouri
River between Kansas City and Sibley,
Mo-; across tho Cumberland River near
Davidson, Tenn; across East River be-
tween New York and Long Island; across
the Great Kanawha River below the falls;
across the Missouri River between Omaha
and Council Bluffs; across the Mississippi
River near Winona, Mimi; across the
Missouri River at Pierre, Dak.; across the
Tennessee River near Mussel Shoals Ca
nal; across the Tennessee River near Gun
tersville, Ala; across the Mississippi River
near Keokuk.
Among the rights of way granted railroad
corporations were the following: To the
Maricopee IL Phoenix Railroad Company
through the Cali River Indian Reserva-
tion; to the Rio Grande and Ell Paso
Railroad Company through the Fort Bliss
military reservation; to the st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Manitoba Railroad Company
through the Indian reservation in Northern
Montana and Northwestern Dakota; to the
Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad
Company through Indian Territory; to the
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
Railroad Company across the Fort Meade
military reservation; to the Utah Midland
Railroad Company through the Uncom-
phagre and Uintah reservation in Utah; to
the Rocky Fork and Cooke City Railroad
Company through the Grow Indian reser-
vation in Montana.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Allotment OF Lands In Severalty to Our
Dusky Wards.

Allotment OF Lands In Severalty to Our
Dusky Wards.
The act to provide for the allotment of
lands in severalty to the Indians authorizes
the President to allot the lands on any
specified reservation which is deemed ad-
vantageous for agricultural and grazing
purposes in severalty 10 the Indians To-
Gated thereon as follows:
"To each head of family, one-quarter
section; to each single person over Is
years of age, ne-eighth of a section; to
each orphan child under l8, one eighth of
q section; to each other single person under
the date of the order directing the allot-
ment, one sixteenth of section"
Where there is not enough land on o
reservation to allot in the quantities above
specified the partitioning shall be on pro
rata basis in the above proportion. Where
the lands gre valuable only tor grazing pur-
poses additional quantities can be set aside
for each individual. Where treaty stipu-
lations or previous acts of Congress provide
for allotment in greater quantities than
above specified these stipulations shall be
strictly observed. Special agents are TO be
appointed by the President to make the al
lotments, the conditions of which are laid
down. Upon the approval of the allot-
ments by the Secretary or the Interior he
is to issue patents in the name of the allot-
ters, which shall declare that the United
States holds the land thus allotted in trust
for twenty-five years, the trust to be dis
charged free from incumbrances at the end
of that period. The surplusage of lands
over the allotment is to be bought from the
Indians by the United States aud to be dis
posed of to actual and bona fide settlers in
tracts not exceeding 16G acres to any one
person. The sum paid by the United
States rs purchase money for any reserva-
tions 10 be held in the Treasury for the
sole use of the tribe or tribes to which the
reservation belonged. At the completion
of the allotmen!s and patenting of the lands
every member Of the bands or tribes of In
dians to whom the alotments have been
made shall be subjectto the laws, both civil
and criminal, of the State or Territory in
which they may reside. Every Indian born
within the United States to whom allotment
shall be made, or who has voluntarily
taken up his residence apart from any tribe,
is declared 10 be q citizen of the United
States. The provisions of the net do not
extend to the tribes in the Indian Territory.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24
The Trouble Is to BE Understood.

The following quaint advertisement
appeared in contemporary recently {:
"a situation wanted by a steady, set
tied young Woman of the Established
Church, Who understands a coao. I"
There's very little Christianity in a
COW, according to our country expert
ence, It's easy enough to understand
the COW; the sublime difficulty is to
get the COW to understand you.-Fun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24
PENSIONS.
Provisions OF the Bill Granting Pensions to
Mexican War Veterans.

The Mexican pension law directs the
Secretary of the Interior to place on the
pension roll the names of the surviving
officers and enlisted men who actually
served sixty days with the army or navy of
the United States in Mexico or en- route
officers and enlisted men if they have not
lemarrried. Every one of the class named
s..V'o "nV aOII1S VIV ago "a 40 onIIVicu
TO the benefits Of the act, but no pension
shall be granted soldier in the Mexican
war for disability when the disability was
incurred in the war of rebellion against
the United States. The amount to be paid
under the act is S8 per month. 1t is esti-
mated that the yearly disbursements VII be
not less than 81, 500, 900.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24

In England, young gentlemen speak
Of their fathers as "the governor"
"pater," "the overseer," etc. In Amer
lea they say dad" "the boss" or "the
old man." In heather countries they
say father" but they are q long way
behind the AGE.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24

1T was very proper answer to him
who asked why any man should be de-
lighted with beautyp That it was
question that none but q blind man
could ask, since any beautiful object
doth so much attract the sight of all
men that it is in no mans power not to
be pleased with t.-Cldrendon.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24
CONCERNING RAILROADS.
Adjusting Land-Grant Questions - New
Bridges-Rights of Way.

BrIdges-kIghts OF Way.
The act for the adjustment of railroad
land grants applies specially to Kansas,
but it is general bill not limited in its
scope TO any State. IL applies TO cases
where, when the adjustment of the grant
has been made, il shall be found that more
land has been certified or patented to the
railroad company than the grant really
gives. Under the provisions of the act
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized
and directed TO at once adjust in accord
ance with the decisions of the Supreme
Court each of the railroad land grants
made by Congress and heretofore unad-
justed. IL il shall appear that there has
been erroneous certifying or patenting the
Secretary of the Interior shall make de-
mand upon the company to relinquish and
reconvey its title, and In the event OF the